Guide-eye for spinning or roving machines.



E. DIXON.

GUIDE EYE FOR SPINNING 0R ROVING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. n, I9IB.

1,282,77 31, Patented Oct. 29, 1918.

5] wucmtoz EZRA DIXON,'OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

GUIDE-EYE FOR SPINNING OR ROVING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Uct. 29, rain.

Application filed April 11, 1918. Serial No. 227,845.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA DIXON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bristol, 1n the county of Bristol and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Guide-Eyes for Spinning or Roving Machines, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in guide eyes for spinning or roving machines.

Heretofore guide eyes have been formed by simply punching the stock of the bracket so as to provide a hole forming the eye, but this has the objection of leaving the punched hole of a thin jagged or rough-edged formation, with consequent scraping of the fibers followed by the latter collecting on or around the edge and eventually stopping the hole up completely, in addition to fraying the fibers by the constant rubbing or scraping thereof against the present rough edge.

Accordingly, the present invention proposes to provide an eye which is drawn up from the sheet metal and which is turned or rolled back upon itself to provide a per fectly smooth eye in which no edges or rough surfaces whatever can possibly be engaged by the yarn.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a guide eye constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In proceeding in accordance with the. present invention, the usual bracket 1 is employed having a guide eye proper 2. The guide eye is formed by drawing the metal stock and then curling, rolling or turning back its edge as depicted at 3.

In curling the stock the extreme free edge thereof is caused to bear or impinge against the outer face of the tubular eye proper 2 as indicated at 4, and since the roll Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the or bead 3 is of circular cross-section, it will be seen that a perfectly smooth surface is presented on which the thread or yarn will move or ride, preventing fraying thereof, or injury in any manner. The guide eye, also flares from the point a, in opposite directions, so that an enlarged flared inlet as well as a like outlet is provided leading into and out of the eye proper. In this way, no obstruction against the free entrance of the thread to the eye and its exit is afforded, and consequently no rough surfaces are present which will scrape the fibers from the thread and clogging up the eye eventually stop the passage of the thread therethrough. In further addition, there ispresented an elongated surface at a which acts to horizontally support the thread so that the movement thereof in a free and easy manner, attendant with less friction, than where a sharp edge supporting the thread as heretofore, is had.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is As a new article of manufacture, a guide eye for spinning machines and the like comprising a metal bracket having an arm and a substantially circular member connected at its periphery to a side of said arm and depending from the latter to underlie the arm, said member being drawn to form a truncated cone eye and having its periphery forming an acute angle with said arm, the metal at the end of the eye of least diameter being curled outwardly and rearwardly and disposed adjacent the opposite side of the arm and being flared in the direction opposite to the flare of the eye.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EZRA DIXON.

Witnesses:

ADA E. HAGELRTY, J. A. MILLER.

Gommissioner oi Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

